Confidence Quotes

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Confidence Quotes and Quotations

A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it. ~From Cool Runnings

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. ~John Powell

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~Charles Dickens

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. ~Mark Twain

Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman

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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach, Illusions

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ~George Washington

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars. ~Serbian Saying

Be proud to wear you. ~Dodinsky

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ~Francis Bacon

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. ~Michel de Montaigne

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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. ~Michel de Montaigne

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ~Vince Lombardi

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ~Aristotle

Do not doubt the goodness in you. It is inappropriate. ~Dodinsky

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. ~Zig Ziglar

Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown

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Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ~Samuel Johnson

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. ~Martin Luther

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ~Oswald Chambers

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. ~Author Unknown

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~Thomas à Kempis

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. ~Pope John Paul II

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ~Lao Tzu

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. ~Robert Brault

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller

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I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth

If I am not for myself, who will be? ~Pirke Avoth

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ~Abraham Lincoln

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. ~Don Ward

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. ~Henrik Ibsen

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. ~Marcus Garvey

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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~Nicholas de Chamfort

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~Dale Carnegie

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~Epicurus

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton

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It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~William Hazlitt

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.~Lao Tzu

Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. ~Marie Curie

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. ~Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~Gene Fowler

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. ~Augustus William Hare

Never dull your shine for somebody else. ~Tyra Bank

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. ~Robert Brault

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ~Helen Keller

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ~Baruch Spinoza

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Sa'Di

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. ~Mignon McLaughlin

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Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~Anthony Powell

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~Sophia Loren

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~André Dubus

Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ~Robert Hughes

The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet. ~Dodinsky

The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief. ~Shawn Purvis

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ~Ellen Goodman

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman

There are offences given and offences not given but taken. ~Izaak Walton

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ~Christian Bovee

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. ~Mark Twain

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. ~Robert Brault

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. ~Mignon McLaughlin

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~Olin Miller

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. ~Henry David Thoreau

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford

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With confidence, you have won before you have started. ~Marcus Garvey

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' ~Eleanor Roosevel

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass

Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities. ~Dodinsky

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ~Lou Holtz and John Heisler

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